A “Christian” minister, Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis, made a recent tweet saying that “abortion access is holy and life-honoring.” Lewis, the senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church, claimed that abortion is a good thing to stop “forced births.” “Forcing people to give birth reveals such little respect for life and the wellbeing of everyone involved.”
The claims are profoundly unsound, as argued in detail below in a reply by Lifesite News.com. But, rather than go through the points, the most obvious objection comes from the Bible, that thou shall not kill. The unborn is not like an enemy soldier, home invader or anyone threating one; the foetus is most times, apart from rape, conceived by consenting sexual acts. In doing so, the actors should have the IQ to realise that a new life can be created. In doing so, they therefore assume moral responsibility for their actions, just as if ne was getting into a car and driving on the road. Apart from the special case of rape, here is simply no “forced birth” at all, so the basic points are unfounded.